Monday, July 7, 2008

Talk About Fireworks!

Sparklers & Bubblers
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My week began as I believe, from here on out, they all should . . . on a double date and with a foot massage!
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A couple of keg beers on Friday led to one of Jessica's "Grande Plans" and by Tuesday evening David Higdon, Jamie Weatherford and I were having a drink and waiting for her arrival at Taylormade Grill. By seven thirty we were all "picking out our colors."
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Now . . . There is a reason that I call Jessica (Walden) Julie. Julie McCoy was the cruise director on The Love Boat. And Jessica's (often hair-brained sounding) schemes have never failed us. Tuesday night was no exception and I'll never have another pedicure without bringing a boy along.
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IT IS A MUST! They were so precious and I laughed until (I am quite certain) I was very nearly rendered incontinent. From the look on Jessica's face when (due to a covert operation run by David whereby the bottom of her chair suddenly began to vibrate) to the blush that never quite left Jamie's cheeks to David's insistence that he did not need fans to dry his topcoat because "the angels were blowing on them" . . . it evolved into the kind of evening this girl won't soon forget.
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For the holiday, I took my pedicured little piggies to Tybee Island for a little visit with Brooks Gaudry.
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Time to spend with Brooks comes with a double your money-back guarantee of a true adventure. This particular escapade began when he looked at me and said "now shuga . . . I'm gonna warn-ya . . . there are people down here that are most likely missin' a chromosome, so be careful."
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And that was all she wrote. The sun drenched my soul, the fireworks (and a few licka drinks) lit us up, and before the weekend was over I was looking through a Karaoke Catalog in a gas station.
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Being with Brooks always reminds me of 1995. When I played in a game of poker on the roof of the school . . . when Bert Dasher and James Berg led an expedition up Murder Creek . . . when things were simple and there was never EVER a "plan."
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I'll TOAST to that any day!
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If you haven't ever been to Tybee Island then you've got to get with the program. After all, it's close enough that you can guzzle gas AND beer without cutting into your shoe budget.
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For supper, the place to be is AJ's Dockside. It's on the Back River and hosts the prettiest little spot for catching a sunset that I have ever sat upon. As darkness falls the little white lights begin to twinkle, the live music rolls out across the black water, and you would quite literally expect to find "a slice of heaven" listed on the dessert menu.
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After finishing the Crispy Scored Flounder - a whole flounder scored, delicately fried & drizzled with a sweet chili glaze - Brooks led myself, and the entire restaurant, in a sing-a-long. Be still my beating heart - the whole damn lot of 'em!
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"And we were singin' - bye, bye Miss American Pie . . . ."
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It just doesn't get much sweeter!
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. . . "singin' this'll be the day that I die."


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